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| ADMIN
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| Jim in Merced CA
Thu 5/15/2008 5:34p | I just heard about this about a half an hour ago.
Bravo. This is a good thing. |
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| Elderp
Thu 5/15/2008 5:46p | "separation of Church and State"
I don't really care about either of these issues but I want to know why Polygamy is illegal and gay marriage isn't. |
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| X-san
Thu 5/15/2008 6:11p | So, what's your point?
Are you saying gay marriage and polygamy should be legal?
Or vice-versa?
Interesting that the Mormon church is being so outspoken about banning one, when their history indicates great advocation for the other.
So much for equality, eh? |
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| BlueDevilSF
Thu 5/15/2008 6:16p | >>But I will be kind and I will be fair to their rights.<<
Yeah, right.
Just like your little LDS buddies who were doing their missions in SF a few days after Proposition 22 -- into which the LDS church pumped a lot of campaign money -- passed. One missionary had the absolute gall to approach me as I waited for a bus. He had no clue as to what I was talking about when I told him why I had no interest in listening to or speaking with him.
Listen, I don't care if you or anyone else around here condones or doesn't condone my own relationship, but I'll be damned if I sit by and let people like you, the LDS church, the Baptists, the Catholics, ad nauseum work to deny me and mine legal recognition of our relationships. YOU ARE NO BETTER THAN US, BUT YOU WILL NEVER UNDERSTAND THAT.
In my 20s and early 30s, I never considered myself an activist type, but that has changed ever since I left California. As far as I'm concerned, people like you are an enemy to me and will always be until the day you leave us alone. I'm not as optimistic as some people I know: Things are NEVER going to change.
But that doesn't mean I'm going to sit down and take it.
Have a nice life. Take pride in your superiority. |
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| ChurroMonster
Thu 5/15/2008 6:20p | All churches end up changing their doctrine when pressured by science or society. Some are much quicker to do so than others. The Mormon church is very slow to accept change but does it just like everyone else. They then concoct cover stories like divine revelation through a prophet when racist or sexist policies are discontinued.
Polygamy, racism, sexism, wordly ignorance, all eventually fall by the wayside. The fact that they resist change so adamantly and so consistently is evidence that their leadership is neither inspired nor terribly intelligent.
But the resistance to change is kind of fun to watch because it's easy to see who's going to win in the end. |
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| Elderp
Thu 5/15/2008 6:23p | The Church makes no qualms about proclaiming morality, what is the government's excuse?
As far as equality goes I don't think it exists. The best we can hope to do is get along without hurting eachother. |
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| BlueDevilSF
Thu 5/15/2008 6:25p | ^^^
Too late.
Organized religion and the bigots of this country have already done that job very well. |
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| ChurroMonster
Thu 5/15/2008 6:26p | Oh and why is it that the same people who cry "THE SANCTITY OF MARRIAGE!" don't use the same argument when talking about our abominable divorce rate, the huge amount of "one man and one woman" living together without choosing to get married, and the marriage-trashing practice of polygamy?
Straight people destroyed the sanctity of marriage long ago. Maybe it's time for gays to see of they can do a better job of preserving it? |
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| Elderp
Thu 5/15/2008 6:30p | "because it's easy to see who's going to win in the end."
Well according to you we all end up as worm food. That to me is a no win situation. At least I have a hope for something.
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